Word of the Day: Flashturbation

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March 31, 2006

Word of the Day: Flashturbation

I thought I was pretty clever when I came up with this word today.

Flashturbation: n. Any use of Macromedia Flash on a website that doesn't improve the style or function, or at worst detracts from either.

Some sites like this one just end up looking a little silly, while others like this manage to discard all the benefits of HTML, CSS, and even hypertext so that you can enjoy five second long page transitions.

Then a quick google showed that I'm far from the first to come up with this word. Oh well.

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__doPostBack

Posted by T. Rogers trogers@canada.com (206.108.197.64) on Thursday, April 06 2006 at 12:49 AM

James:
Your function:
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function appendPBFunction(fn)
{
return function(target,argument)
{
fn();
return __doPostBack(target,argument);
}
}
now we can execute the following code:
__doPostback = appendPBFunction(extraFunction);
__doPostback = appendPBFunction(anotherFunction);
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You named 'agile'. Is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?
We used to call it 'elegant'
Mind you I missed the whole "C" stuff, my background started with Fortran and APL.
Javascript is definitely not my forte.
I do recognise agile (or elegant code), however
Thankyou for your submission.
BTW, I have an absolutely beautiful (generously submitted by someone else, of course) javascript date picker control.
Unfortunately, it intefere's with the www.metabuilders.com combobox control.
I don't suppose you would be interested in looking at it?
It really does look good, but I thin it has something to do with the I.E. specific cancelBubble event.